Legalizing corruption
- In self-defence
- Beleaguered institutions
- Europe without leadership
- The momentous change
- The Blackmail of Illa
- The rest of the month
A passion of patriotic fervour runs through Spain. La Roja is on track to conquer Berlin and Carlos Alcaraz to storm Wimbledon for the second time. A Spanish citizen is worth what his hope is worth. Until Sunday we will continue to believe that dreams can be achieved with talent and with effort. We are a first-class sports power. Politically, socially, and economically it is already another song and not exactly the Song of Songs.
Courts, CGPJ, ERTEs, Catalonia, Emigration, VOX. Begoña and her brother-in-law; NATO, the European Parliament, Orban, the bombings of children's hospitals in Ukraine, Gaza, Trump, and Biden. We are facing a hot and turbulent summer ahead.
In self-defence
Next week, President Sánchez will delight us with a “package of democratic quality" to put an end to hoaxes, disinformation, lies and the mud machine. Another Kichtnerian tango.
With the excuse that he wants to develop European regulations on Mass Media, he will apply the philosophy of the Defence Law of the Spanish Republic (October 21, 1931) where it was punishable with penalties of up to 10,000 pesetas at that time and closure of newspapers for acts of aggression, incitement to resist or disobedience.
The Republican regulations were and are arbitrary and flexible in their interpretation. "The dissemination of news that may break the credit or disturb the peace or public order." In fact, it seized and closed more than a hundred liberal and monarchist newspapers; the most famous, the ABC of Madrid, which the Communists used to point out the “paseados”. A preview of the ”exprópiese" of Hugo Chávez and the disappeared of Videla. We return, then, to the previous censorship of Manuel Fraga (1966)
It is a "Sanchista revenge” after the alleged corruption in the environment of the Moncloa. For the first time in the 47 years of democracy in our country, the wife of a president of the Government will sit on the bench for influence peddling and corruption.
The military deployment of last July 5th is unprecedented: 24 milkmaids, 200 agents, another 100 plainclothes, a helicopter, several drones, 24 suspended trials and displacement of journalists 150 meters from the Courts of the Plaza de Castilla with repeated request for press accreditations. Nothing like it had ever been seen.
That day, the “president" of the Government showed that we are not equal before the law. We saw Rajoy in front of the judge, Cristina and her then husband, Iñaki Urdangarín, taking the stroll in Palma. But Faraón Sánchez mobilized all the powers of the state so that Mrs. Gómez could enter through the garage. He even demanded that he not be videotaped like the rest of mortals. Begoña is the wife of a powerful man.
A procedural issue used by the Defence lawyer, Antonio Camacho, has delayed the appearance of the “professor” to the 19th. Will the Dean of the Plaza de Castilla Courthouse allow the same privilege to be repeated? Let us hope not.The audio and video leaks of the two-minute appearance of Mrs. Gómez Fernández indicate where the answers will go. “I don't know anything”, “I don't know”, “I don't remember” ... Oratory is not her forte so the president will be instructed to answer with negative monosyllables. Responsibility? None. In recent times he has built a biography of an essential professional in marketing that has nothing to do with his public exhibitions.
The Coiffed judge who instructs the case in his place. He then quoted the Rector of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) Joaquín Goyache, who revealed that a secretary of Doña Begoña invited him by phone to attend the Moncloa. And Don Joaquín went there to have a little coffee like Juan Guerra's.
The president's wife went straight to the position: I want a chair of Competitive Social Transformation. (CTSC). She had registered it months ago, in the middle of the pandemic. And it even announced its start-up 37 days before it was constituted. The sponsors were already ready. And the racket set in motion.
The special and extraordinary presentation of this chair to a person who is not even a graduate is one of the biggest scandals of this century.
And then comes the matter of Barrabés, benefactor of his ideas; the two letters supporting the subsidies to the illustrious man from Huesca (more than 20 million euros); his connections with Air Europa and his multimillion-dollar aid from the Council of Ministers to Globalia. Very transparent. And the Africa Center.
It is all hoaxes and mud from the extreme right with Clean Hands. This union was the one that accused the ex-dukes of Palma of getting contracts for being the King's son-in-law, given their absolute lack of training and previous work experience. And no one criticized him for belonging to the ”fachosphere".
Manos Limpias has also denounced David Sánchez Pérez-Castejón (David Azagra in his artistic-musical life), hired by the socialist Deputation of Badajoz. A tailor-made contract as an orchestra conductor. The judge has asked the UCO to collect information about her work activity and the most serious thing: she has asked the Treasury for the Personal Income Tax Returns for the last four years.
The brother resides and pays taxes in Portugal. But its main source of income is the Diputación Pacense. A financial patriot. The judge also wants to know the origin of her millionaire accounts at BBVA, which are not supported unless she has received the Eurodreams.
Beyond the presumption of innocence, there are rational indications of irregularities in both behaviours; in any case, they are unedifying. Morally reprehensible.
On Tuesday, the 17th we will check the extent of the Praetorian measures of the socialist emperor to bridle judges and journalists. He already has a powerful tool in his possession, institutional advertising. 400 million euros to defeat the "pseudo-media". Even since the Council of Ministers have not been able to name a single false means. They simply do not accept criticism. They are authoritarian and social communists rather than democrats. They will be regulations in self-Defence, in Defence of his family, the PSOE and the UGT union.
Beleaguered institutions
We mercilessly criticized Alberto Núñez Feijóo in our last Bay for signing the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ). We recognize that it has not been a bad agreement with the intermediation of the European Commission. The EU is also good for this.
The ratio of 10/10 members for the PSOE and the PP allows, in principle, to harbour the hope of believing in a principle of depoliticization of justice.
The measure should have been taken in parallel with the reform of the future Councils. There is nothing simpler than returning to the Constitution (art.122.2). The 20 new members will prepare a report that will be debated in the Congress and in the Senate. But as the “eminent jurist” Patxi López has advanced, nothing indicates that "the judges choose the judges".
The Constitutional Court is the Aurora Borealis. Five of the seven members appointed by the PSOE are modifying the sentences of the ERE and amnestying the corrupt socialists of the south. They started with Magdalena Alvarez. And this week it is Chaves and Griñán's turn.687 millions of public moneys has been embezzled. 27 have been recovered. Not one responsible. In autumn, everyone goes to the streets. At Christmas they will ask for compensation for the "state repression". Like the Catalan coup plotters. Victims of the PP, of course.
Those five judges could have incurred manifest incompatibility. The president, Candido Conde Pumpido who refrained from hearing this matter when he was Attorney General of the State; Juan Carlos Campo, high-ranking member of the Junta and minister with Sánchez; Luisa Segoviano, signed a judgment and an order in the Social Chamber of the Supreme; Luisa Balaguer, was rapporteur of 28 opinions on the Ere in the Advisory Council of Andalusia and Inmaculada Montalbán who participated in 22 judgments of the Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia (TSJA) and was awarded by Griñán himself.
I imagine it will be the Supreme Court that will have the last word. And it is this very institution that has shelved the cause of the “Democratic Tsunami.” Judge Manuel García Castellón's wires got crossed and he [incomprehensibly] forgot to renew the extension of time to continue investigating these street terrorists in July 2021.
He did it a day later and now the Supreme Court confirms that, although there has been a crime, the cause has been filed in the trunk of indignity. Puigdemont, Rovira and their incendiary coup plotters are already heroes. It is incredible that this happens in the Spanish justice system. It is not the first time. I remember that Garzón released a drug trafficker because he failed to extend his provisional release. Now, to the narcos, some [corrupt] judges let them go free with a bail of 50,000 euros. Not a fine for unprofessionalism.
The Government sneaks an amendment into the Parity law to take away from the Senate the power to limit the spending ceiling. It is unconstitutional. When the High Court rules in 2027, the PSOE will not admit resignations. Sánchez's defence of the attorney general of the government - “he does not have to resign” - is to legalize corruption.
When we close this chronicle, the Supreme Court has appealed to the Constitutional Court for amnesty for violating the right to equality. Count Pumpido will "stain his robe again with the dust of the road". The law will be constitutional because that is what Don Pedro has dictated.
Europe without leadership
The American gerontocracy is creating a power vacuum in the United States that is moving to the West. Biden should do one last service to his country: by leaving. He has been a good president. Trump will be a danger if he returns to the Banking House.
The 75th anniversary of the founding of NATO has revealed that the enemies are there, invading the lands of freedom. Ukraine will start receiving F 16 and Patriots aircraft to stop the massacre. We must win this war. A warning: Europe must be responsible for its defence.
Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, and the Puebla Group continue to destabilize democracies and markets. Either we stand up to them or they will finish us off.
In the European Union, Ursula von der Leyen (Germany), Antonio Costa (Portugal) and Kaja Kallas (Estonia) make up the power trio in the European Commission. The pact of the people, social democrats and liberals will hopefully be able to counter the attacks of Le Pen, Orban, Silvani, Abascal and the German radicals.
The trip of interim President Victor Orban to Kyiv to demand the surrender of Zelensky contrasts with the calls for peace that he demanded from Putin and Xi Jinping. The visit to Trump is a nonsense.
Meloni, the most pragmatic leader has been displaced. And we will have to count on her to neutralize all the patriots for Europe and the German pro-Nazis (AfD) that Alvise and the squirrels of SALF have joined. And the PSOE cheating with its candidate "Teresa". More trink. He has resigned his seat because it is too short for him and now, he wants a very green and very wealthy super commissioner.
Macron has turned to the extreme left of Melenchón and la France Insoumise. The cordon sanitaire for Marie Le Pen will create instability with the new cohabitation that will curb French support for Ukraine.
Keir Starmer, the new British prime minister has been moderate in his victory aware that the conservative legacy will not be easy to overcome. His rapprochement with Brussels and his support for Kyiv, increasing defence spending by up to 2.5% are two clear symptoms that sanity has returned after Brexit.
The transmission of power is to be commended. The Labour party wins the election and hours later, the new tenant of 10 Down Street, visits King Charles III and forms a government. Parliament is operating with the same speed. Will we streamline our bureaucracy and shorten the deadlines for the transfer of powers?
While we are waiting for the ceasefire in Gaza with an exchange of prisoners, what happened in Bolivia seems like a coup to favour the return of Evo Morales. But it did not turn out, fortunately. The attempt to return to politics by the corrupt Fujimori was a nightmare. And Milei, the one who warned us in Madrid to “not let socialism ruin our lives”" is now visiting Bolsonaro in Brasilia hours after he was accused of corruption and for assault on power. He needs more diplomacy and less testosterone.
A turbulent time where wars do not stop, and the fronts extend over three continents. There is a lack of leadership. Mediocrity and corruption invade every corner of the planet.
The momentous change
Immigration is the unstoppable phenomenon that will most disturb the West. The desire for a better life is unstoppable. We are all immigrants, although in Madrid, almost ten years after my arrival, the sun is still rising for everyone.
More than 23,000 migrants have arrived in Spain this year. In the Atlantic countries of Africa, another 70,000 are waiting to arrive on our shores. The case of the Canary Islands, like those of Ceuta, Melilla, and Andalusia, requires a state policy.
The "menas" (unaccompanied minors) arrive on the Islands in incessant waves. Without documentation.
The lack of government policy has come to nothing. The dead in the two Spanish cities in North Africa buried all the agreements with Rabat. The "Pegassus affair" broke the links of cooperation.
Mrs von der Leyen never came to our shores as she did in Lampedusa at the invitation of the president of the Italian government. Nor has Pedro Sánchez ever brought the problem at the southern border of the Union to Brussels. This week I was asking NATO for help when it does not have the guts to involve our patrol boats.
It is time for the big immigration debate in the Senate. The Canary Islands summit was a failure. The PSOE informed the popular presidents of the reform of the Aliens Law a few hours before the meeting. Distributing 342 minors around the peninsula is a botch while there are 5,500 lefts in the Canary archipelago and another 5,000 more to arrive until December. Humanitarian aid is urgent and necessary.
The problem is political, economic, and social. The State must provide enough money for the reception and design vocational training plans. What better destination than European funds! The lack of solidarity of Catalonia, also in this matter, has left the Moncloa in the minority. Hence the pressure on Feijóo.
The extemporaneous threat of VOX breaking the coalition governments with the PP in Valencia, Murcia, Aragon, the Balearic Islands and Extremadura explains the drift of Abascal attached in the EP to the Orban group, that is, serving Putin. His "tin-pot patriotism" leaving Meloni out in the open confirms that VOX is walking on the knife-edge of sectarianism because the most extremist flank is already occupied by SALF.
On Wednesday, the former Santi Abascal “made a Sanchez” accusing Feijóo of breaking the coalition. The socialist leader always blames the opposition for the hoaxes and the mud that is what he has been preaching and practicing since 2018.
If they leave, they will create a further schism within the Bamboo Street party and many votes will return to their popular origins. The men of the PP activate plans to govern alone. Abascal and his knights of the octagonal Table have not learned the lesson of the dizzying fall of Citizens by the secret pact Ábalos-Arrimadas.
What will happen to the 140 municipalities in which they govern together? To the instability of the central government, we add from now on the autonomous and municipal conflicts.
The three minutes of appearance without questions of Abascal, after three hours of delay, showed that he has taken the decision without counting on his autonomous barons. Don Santiago, like Don Pedro, is also another "puto amo”.
President Sanchez rubs his hands. With this clip, VOX gives wings to the Moncloa until 2027. The I Centenary of the Ii Republic (1931) is at hand. We will see Largo Caballero enthroned as the glorious precursor and inspirer of the Third Spanish Republic.
The Blackmail of Illa
The PSC is ready to govern. The price is the least. The party is paid by Sanchez. The Minister of Finance admitted last week that “The state assumes the forgiveness - although she does not like the word - of a first debt of 15,000 euros to the Generalitat”.
It seems that the "couponing” is not going to be possible, but a “Tax Consortium” will be enabled so that Catalonia collects all the taxes. In addition, the shielding of the Catalan language is already closed by disobeying the High Court of Justice of Catalonia. Spanish is marginalized by skipping court rulings. Nothing is happening.
The fringe for negotiating with ERC is not to leave out the 200 militants with positions in the administration. The Provincial Council and the City Council will absorb the "public servants” who have not obtained a place by opposition. The Commons will also go on the official payroll.
The meeting in Waterloo between Puigdemont and Junqueras has been a smokescreen because the one who rules is the newcomer from Switzerland, Marta Rovira, without any crime after the technical ruling of Judge García Castellón. Republicans do not want to talk about elections in the fall.
Puigdemont is waiting for the crimes of embezzlement of public funds and high treason for his approaches to Putin, according to the instruction of Judge Aguirre, to dissolve like tears in the rain. The coup leader will not break with Don Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón until the immunity is complete.
The Parliament has once again considered the electronic votes of the two deputies who are still in office as valid. Illa's moral taste has been exposed. It was the PSC that brought to the TC the initiative that in the Constitution of the Chamber it was necessary to vote in person. After the Court's ruling, El camaleón Illa voted in favour of the amendment of the Rules of Procedure allowing voting by delegation.
Will the fugitive Puigdemont attend the investiture session? Will he be arrested as Judge Llarena has announced? Will the mob protect him? Sanchez fully trusts the punches of Conde Pumpido.
Illa's blackmail, through jobs, salaries, and public money, will allow Don Salvador to govern. Advancing in the commitment of a referendum agreed from the Government of the Nation will be the last obstacle to make the regional elections of last June effective. Catalonia is still the problem. And despite the coup of the separatists in 2017 and the dismantling of the Criminal Code, (sedition, reduction of the crimes of embezzlement, pardons, amnesty, and storm of millions) coexistence does not reach the Eastern principality.
Spain is disarmed because this government has corrupted everything.
The rest of the month
A hot holiday with outrageous prices; the highest rate of child poverty in the entire European Union. A school, university and Professional Training failure that exceeds 30%; an addiction to gambling, drugs and sex through mobiles that concern the medical and psychiatric community.
Now Minister Escrivá, an aspiring governor of the Bank of Spain, wants to impose a “sexual pajaporte” to regulate porn among young people. And the thing does not stop there: the independentistas of León want to create the 18th Autonomous Community with the provinces of Zamora and Salamanca.
Despite the history, with a commoner like me, let them not count. And what was missing: Talavera (90,000 inhabitants), the second city of Castilla-La Mancha after Albacete (180,000) wants to annex several towns and form a province. The number 51.
Nacho Cano and his "malinches" arrested as criminals by the “pata negra” police of Marlaska. Ayuso summed it up in one adjective: Stalinism.
Before the government shows us the Ten Commandments of Unconditional Surrender to judges and journalists on Tuesday, let us remember that the previous story that we will have to swear will be the following:
a) The case of the Ere and the Tito Berni, did not exist.
b) Puigdemont did not stage a coup
c) Sánchez won the general and European elections.
d) The Montero law did not release rapists.
e) Koldo and Ábalos are an example of management
f) Begoña is a professor.
Pedro Sánchez will end corruption before the end of the year: by legalizing it. May the Spanish passion continue until Sunday. We deserve it.
Antonio REGALADO directs ITHACA BAY in: aregaladorodriguez.blogspot.com